Sunday, July 3, 2016

The Artist's Sketchbook--the new Book is out at last!

It's called Artist's Sketchbook; Techniques for Sketching on the Spot, and I'm very excited about the response it's gotten already--it just started arriving in peoples' mailboxes last week!

It features the works of a number of other international urban
sketchers, most of them well known in our sketching family. You'll find
Don Low, Pat Southern-Pearce, Don Gore, Warren Ludwig, Vicky
Williamson, Laura Murphy Frankstone, Roz Stendahl, Shari Blaukopf, Marc
Taro Holmes, Nina Khashchina, Nik Ira, Steve Penberthy, Allisa Duke,
Roisin Cure, Nina Johansson, Liz Steel, Danny Gregory, and Jennifer
Lawson, as well as some of the finest naturalist/artists around. People
like Jan Blencowe, John Muir Laws, Kolby Kirk, Shevaun Doherty, Maria
Coryell-Martin, Joseph Ruckman and Sue Hodnett fill the pages of the
book with inspiration and demos.

I hope these images will give you a taste...

Here,
the subject is travel sketching, featuring work by Laura Murphy
Frankstone, Nina Johannson, Alissa Duke, Gay Kraeger, all accomplished
travel sketchers! And that's my sketch of the Kansas City airport
terminal...on the right hand page.

Discussing
format at the top of the page...see how effectively Don Gore and Don
Low have handled an extreme vertical on opposite sidees of the globe?
The lower images are my own, dealing with the surprises we sometimes run
into, working on the spot!

Of course we cover materials and supplies for sketching on the spot...

And there are plenty of demos...here, I add watercolor to an ink sketch.

Lots of opportunities for nature sketching, right in our own back yard!

We talk about different tools and paper surfaces and size...

...and
look at how different artists handle similar subjects...here, at upper
left, Marc Holmes is hard at work. Below that, Nina Khashchina explores
the rocky coast. At upper right is Shari Blaukopf's fresh beach
scene...Nina Johannson paints the palms and beach in the Dominican
Republic, and the surf sketch on toned paper is mine, from one of our
trips to California. Widely varying conditions of waters all over the
place...

Steve Penberthy (top) and I explore landscape and water...

Taking a peek at colored pencils...that's my husband Joseph at left!

The back of the book is almost as pretty as the front!

I'll be giving you more sneak peeks in the next week or so, but better yet, snag your own copy!
In the US the 128-page book is available from Amazon , as well as local bookstores and art supply stores, and soon to come on my own website if you'd like a signed copy!

If you get it and you like it, please consider writing a review on Amazon, it would be much appreciated!

Pre-ordered it months ago, got it last week, read it cover to cover already! Over the years I have purchased most of Cathy's (Kate's) books on sketching, painting and nature journaling starting with the original: "The Sierra Club Guide to Sketching in Nature". This latest book follows in that tradition and does not disappoint. The guest artists are also outstanding. Kate continues to inspire and provide sound advice to artist at every level. Thanks again!